Re: OT Oz roads /satnavs

On 20 Aug 2026 18:48:05 GMT
Frank Slootweg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kerr-Mudd, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:05:33 +0100
> > "J. P. Gilliver" <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
> > > Probably apocryphal story - someone going to an address in, I think it
> > > was, Alice Springs. The SatNav said turn right (or left), then didn't
> > > say anything for the next 500 miles or whatever. ("And then I missed the
> > > turn ...")
> > 
> > BT,Didn'tDT - "Take the (Hume?) Highway, after 500km take the third
> > exit at the roundabout".
> 
>   If it was about Alice Springs, it probably was the Stuart Highway.
> 
>   The Hume is in Victoria and New South Wales, i.e. in the east.

Seems I guessed wrong; the road I was on was the A1/Pacific Highway
from a suburb of Sydney going to a barrier reef excursion launch at erm
Yeppoon. (Seems it's no longer a roundabout). First few instructions were
mundane to get onto the A1, maybe a few name changes to out of Sydney
then the infamous n00km to the next junction of interest.

> 
>   Funny that in Oz, you call the highways by their names, not their
> numbers.
> 
>   Apparently the Stuart Highway is the A87 and (from south to north)
> becomes the 1 at Daly Waters. Never knew that in all those thirty years.
>
SA Bill Bryson notes there's a Sturt Highway as well, just to keep you
on your toes! 
> [...]


-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.